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Haitian Heritage Day at Lincoln Center with Center for Traditional Music and Dance Leon Destine & Peniel all rights reserved, for use contact tminsky@ix.netcom.com
Leon Destine has received numerous dance awards.
Destine came from a family in St. Marc, Haiti, whose social strata did not embrace the vodou religion. He was exposed to the drumming and movement of vodou, joining the performing group of Lina Mathon-Fussman (Blanchet).
Among his many noteworthy milestones, Destine performed at the National Folklife Festival in Washington DC in 1941, danced with Katherine Dunham’s Broadway production and touring company of Bal Negre and he started his own dance company that played theatres, concert halls, and venues coast to coast . He has a long list of honors and awards for excellence in the dance.
lincolnctrhaitian-3322.jpg
Haitian Heritage Day at Lincoln Center with Center for Traditional Music and Dance Leon Destine & Peniel all rights reserved, for use contact tminsky@ix.netcom.com
Leon Destine has received numerous dance awards.
Destine came from a family in St. Marc, Haiti, whose social strata did not embrace the vodou religion. He was exposed to the drumming and movement of vodou, joining the performing group of Lina Mathon-Fussman (Blanchet).
Among his many noteworthy milestones, Destine performed at the National Folklife Festival in Washington DC in 1941, danced with Katherine Dunham’s Broadway production and touring company of Bal Negre and he started his own dance company that played theatres, concert halls, and venues coast to coast . He has a long list of honors and awards for excellence in the dance.